First-principles study of ring to cage structural crossover in small ZnO Clusters

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 24, Issue 50, 2012, Pages

  Sarsari, I Abdolhosseini ^a   Hashemifar, S Javad ^a   Salamati, Hadi ^a  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOND ANGLE; DENSITY FUNCTIONALS; FINITE TEMPERATURES; FIRST-PRINCIPLES STUDY; MAGIC NUMBERS; MANY-BODY; METASTABLE STRUCTURES; RED SHIFT; RELATIVE STABILITIES; VIBRATIONAL EXCITATION; ZNO; ZNO NANOSTRUCTURES; ZNO STRUCTURES;

BINDING ENERGY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; METASTABLE PHASES; WEARABLE COMPUTERS; ZINC;

ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84870432475     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: 1361648X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/24/50/505502     Document Type: Article

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